5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

The Effect of Burst Formation Timers on Video Streaming over Optical Burst Switched Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769089,
        author={Felix Espina and Daniel Morato and M. Izal and Eduardo Magana},
        title={The Effect of Burst Formation Timers on Video Streaming over Optical Burst Switched Networks},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769089}
    }
    
  • Felix Espina
    Daniel Morato
    M. Izal
    Eduardo Magana
    Year: 2010
    The Effect of Burst Formation Timers on Video Streaming over Optical Burst Switched Networks
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769089
Felix Espina1,*, Daniel Morato1,*, M. Izal1,*, Eduardo Magana2,*
  • 1: Public University of Navarre, Campus de Arrosadıa s/n, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain
  • 2: Public University of Navarre, Campus de Arrosad´ıa s/n, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain
*Contact email: felix.espina@unavarra.es, daniel.morato@unavarra.es, mikel.izal@unavarra.es, eduardo.magana@unavarra.es

Abstract

Optical Burst Switching networks offer the capacity needed by bandwidth hungry services like video distribution to home subscribers. This paper shows the effect that the burst formation mechanism and its parameters has on video traffic flows. The dependence among video frames in MPEG flows shows a noticeable effect on the total number of frames that the video receiver cannot decode and the duration of the video playback interruptions. By tuning the parameters of the ingress node a quality of service objective can be achieved.